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Number of Schools by Level and Type

Number of Pre-University schools by level and type

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Number of Pre-University schools by level and type

Data from Jan 1999 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Feb 2025, 14:05 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Mixed Level schools comprise Primary & Secondary schools (P1-S4/5) and Secondary & Junior College schools (S1-JC2 or S3-JC2). Mixed Level schools are classified by type according to their secondary sections.

(2) The first junior college (National Junior College) was opened in 1969.

(3) Introduced in 1987, centralised institutes provide a 3-year pre-university course leading to A-Level certification.

(4) Figures exclude the number of Pre-U centres. Introduced in 1979, Pre-U centres are schools that offer a 3-year pre-university course leading to A-Level certification. They were phased out in 1995 due to falling demand.

Data explorer

NumberofPreUniversityschoolsbylevelandtype.csv (98 rows, 3.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Level Of School Text	School Type Text	Number Of Pre University Sch Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Junior College73.5% Centralised Institute26.5%	(Null)0.0% Government53.1% Government-Aided26.5% Independent20.4%	(Null)0.0% 015.3% 127.6% 422.4% 88.2%
1999	Centralised Institute	Government	2
1999	Junior College	Government	9
1999	Junior College	Government-Aided	5
1999	Junior College	Independent	0
2000	Centralised Institute	Government	2
2000	Junior College	Government	10
2000	Junior College	Government-Aided	5
2000	Junior College	Independent	0
2001	Centralised Institute	Government	2
2001	Junior College	Government	10

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Level Of School	level_of_school	Text	-	-
School Type	school_type	Text	-	-
Number Of Pre University Sch	number_of_pre_university_sch	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_190a5d7d5a612705bf13bb4cc37fc34e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Education. (2019). Number of Pre-University schools by level and type (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_190a5d7d5a612705bf13bb4cc37fc34e/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)